Browsing around the excellent River Cottage website I came across a link to bigbarn.co.uk, a super little site that helps you locate local food producers and farmers markets around the country. I love visiting Farmers’ markets for the variety and quality of the food produce, and haven’t been able to since moving to Glasgow simply because I had no idea where to start (nor have I had the time to date, to be honest).
Sure enough, I’ve discovered that there’s a nearby farmers’ market in Queen’s Park, Glasgow, on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month (map). Watch this space for more detail. There’s another in Mansfield Park for those North of the River, on the 2nd and 4th Saturday (map).
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August 21st, 2005 at 6:25 pm
[...] Saturday saw us visit the Farmers market in Queen’s park, Glasgow as usual, and we loaded up on excellent food. It was good to see a few more vegetable stalls this week too - most likely as the farms that supply the produce are now happily harvesting the produce! [...]
December 12th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
[...] Well we finally posted our Christmas cards this weekend. We sent a lot this year to ensure folk have our new address: E-mail isn’t always the best way of letting people know you’ve moved, and it’s a bit more enjoyable sending christmas cards out. We found some nice ones from a charity stall at the Glasgow Farmers’ Market a week or so ago, and spent a while at Beanscene shortly afterwards getting them written. [...]
June 5th, 2006 at 9:23 am
[...] There was then the obligatory BBQ at the end of it all with some local produce from the Glasgow Farmers Market, which we’d managed to pick up on our trip to the DIY shop. Frances even picked up a slightly surprised, and very ugly looking fish on her trip to the supermarket for a few odds and sods, which was suitably pointy, prickly and in need of gutting, but was none the less a treat to eat. It’s name eludes me right now. [...]
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
[...] the long term sustainability of the product and our environment. This includes local producers (at Glasgow’s Farmers markets), supermarket badged UK Organic produce, or Free range. I’m fortunate that I have money to [...]